Heather is a Registered Nurse with a Perinatal Specialty Certificate who has been working with pregnant people in a variety of settings since 2005. Her experience includes program planning, public speaking, and spearheading community development events. As a Registered Nurse, Heather has worked in several fields including withdrawal management, labour & delivery, and maternity.

Heather Cameron, RN, is the Executive Director of BC Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs (BCAPOP) and has worked with pregnant and postpartum people since 2005. With a clinical background in maternity care and withdrawal management, Heather’s work now focuses on perinatal substance use, program development, education and systems change.

She is the creator of BCAPOP’s Perinatal Substance Use Training and has been presenting on perinatal substance use since 2007 throughout British Columbia, Canada and beyond. Heather has also led the development of initiatives including Mothers for Recovery and the Healthy Care Pregnancy Program, bringing together healthcare, community organizations and people with lived and living experience to strengthen care for pregnant and postpartum people.

Heather is honoured to live, work and play on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc Nation.